The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-06-25
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| ILL OAhLEIoN is engaged on Volume
OF poems.
The session of the German Reichstag
has closed
In the Grand Canyon of Colorado snow
is still ten feet deep.
COFFEE isn't settled yet. Spectators
are still stirring it up.
COTTON blooms are making their appear
ance in West Tennessee.
RARE manuscripts in the libraries OF
Paris are to be photographed.
HIAwArHA, KAN, has young lady who
watches over 1900 silk worms.
kEELY, of motor fame says he is getting
tired. So are the stockholders.
The Chicago lawyers are holding coro-
ner's inquest on the late wheat deal.
1T is said that three-fourth of the women
IN New York city are wage earners.
A BULLET aimed at Miss Geary, Of st.
Louis, lodged in her newspaper hustle.
MR.. LESS, of Cumru, Pa, sold sixteen
dollars worth OF cherries off one tree.
ALL hope of getting natural gas in
Cleveland, o., is practically abandoned.
AMONG the presents at recent Adrian
(Mich) wedding were eight pickle casters.
A VETERAN who fought under Blucher at
Waterloo died in Brooklyn the other day.
THE making of shoes on contract in Penn
sylvania prisons will cease in November
next.
GENERAL MEADE's monument in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, will be dedicat-
ed on October IS.
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, now in
Paris, is spending money at the rate Of
s6OO,OOO annually.
IHE Prussian minister of education re-
fuses to admit women to the universities
or medical schools.
THERE is general belief that the tobacco
tax will be abolished early in the coming
session Of Congress.
BIsMARoK's two boys put in more hours
OF solid labor every day than any two
young men in the fatherland.
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON, the Countess
Miranda, now owns the house where Ad-
miral Coligny was murdered.
"THE-man-who-ran-so-fast-th -that-the- wind
was-left-behind, "is the name of recently
elected chief of the Sioux tribe.
A COMMISSION to inquire into the phenom-
enon Of spiritualism has been appointed
by the University of Pennsylvania
LoNDoS's latest dynamite sensation, af-
ter thorough investigation, turns out TO be
= water -damaEed ttre-cracker fright
THE cottage OF The late General Grant Is
being refitted and it Is said will be occu-
pied part of the summer by Mrs. Grant.
MOSQUITOES according to recent bulle-
tin OF the United States Fish Commission,
are deadly enemy to young brook trout.
The postmaster at Scott Bar, Cal,
stands seven feet high in hisstockings-
the tallest postmaster in the United States.
WILSON WADpINGHAM, Of Connecticut, is
the largest land-holder in the United
States. He owns the title to two million
acres.
MRS. RosENBURG, of the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, is the best coun-
terfeit detector in the world. She gets
800 year.
The library of the British Museum now
contains more than 100000 books, which
occupy three miles lineal of bookcases
eight feet high.
THE pension Office at Topeka, Kan, dis
bursed S24l, ,99O.S7 during the past quarter.
There are 2S,072 honorably discharged SOL
diers on the roll.
KANSAS boasts Of having the tallest man
in this country, Mr. j. d. Hasden. He is
seven feet, three and half inches high.
He lives at Lakin.
A SMALL train has been safely run, with
out annoyance in the way of smoke and
cinders, on the Pennsylvania rail way with
petroleum as fuel.
The largest Delaware shad caught this
season Is claimed to be one captured at
Billingsport, n j., which weighed nine
and quarter pounds.
A MAN in Nauvoo, ILL.,, claims to have a
span of mules that were used in hauling
stone for building the Mormon temple in
that place fifty years ago.
MANUEL NOEL, an aged French Canadian,
residing at Laconia, N. H., feasted on q
pound of raw beefsteak, few days ago,
and died within half an hour.
A STATUE of President Arthur is to be
erected in Madison Square, New ork. The
sum Of $4,000 will be needed, of which
SIS, 900 has been already raised.
In garden at Woodland, Cal, is grow
ing a clump of wheat which is a curiosity
because of the fact that 16l stalks have
spread from one kernel of wheat.
In the great Eastern institutions of
learning they fully appreciate the value of
gymnastics. Harvard's gymnasium cost
$4,000, Yale's $l25,OOO, and Columbia's
s156,OOO.
THE new coins which are now to be is
sued in England in honor of the Queens
jubilee, bear the likeness of her Majesty,
with small crown above the widows cap
and veil.
IT behooves Boston girls to carry extra
magnifying glasses when visiting in the
rural districts, as one of the dear creatures
mistook bumblebee for blackberry the
other day.
ALFRED SUILY, the New York railroad
magnate, presented check of fifty thou
sand dollars to his niece, who graduated
at the Metzgar institute at Carlisle, Pa, a
few days ago.
HIS trial is said to be costing Jacob
Sharp over $4,000, and it is added that the
amount will be increased to nearly half a
million should he have to carry the case to
the court of appeals.
SITTING BULL is in mourning for the
death Of his eldest daughter. He is at